Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says he will send Patriot missiles to Kyiv ahead of ‘major statement on Russia'

Independent

14-07-2025

Donald Trump said the US will send Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine, which he claimed were necessary to defend the country because Russian president Vladimir Putin"talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening".
The US president did not give a number of missiles he plans to send to Ukraine, but he said the US would be reimbursed for their cost by the EU.
Mr Trump has grown increasingly disenchanted with Mr Putin after he resisted Washington's attempts to negotiate a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. He is due to make a "major statement" on Russia on Monday.
"He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening. But there's a little bit of a problem there. I don't like it," Mr Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington.
"We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military equipment. They are going to pay us 100 per cent for that, and that's the way we want it," Mr Trump said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's security agency says it has tracked down and killed Russian agents who assassinated a Ukrainian intelligence officer during the week.
Ukraine's security agency says it killed Russian agents
Ukraine's security agency tracked down and killed Russian agents on Sunday who were suspected of shooting dead one of its senior officers in the Ukrainian capital.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the suspected Russian agents were killed in the Kyiv region after they offered resistance to arrest. A video released by the agency showed two bodies lying on the ground.
The agency said earlier that a man and a woman were suspected of being involved in the assassination of Ivan Voronych, an SBU colonel, in a bold daylight attack on Thursday.
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Ukraine's SBU says it killed Russian agents suspected of gunning down its officer
Ukraine's security agency says it has killed Russian agents suspected of assassinating a senior officer in Kyiv
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 06:51
Russia claims Ukraine attacked training centre at nuclear plant
Ukrainian drones attacked a training centre at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant last evening, the administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said.
"The enemy used three unmanned aerial vehicles," the administration said on Telegram. It added that "no critical" damage was recorded.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 06:12
Germany refuses to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine
Germany will not transfer its Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, the defence minister said.
Boris Pistorius told the Financial Times that Germany will instead supply Kyiv the Patriot air defence systems purchased from the US."Industry needs to ramp up its capacities. That applies to ammunition, to drones, to tanks — really to almost every area," Mr Pistorius said.
Earlier this month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the decision to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine remained under consideration.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 05:55
Lavrov meets Chinese counterpart to discuss Ukraine war
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Beijing yesterday ahead of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) foreign ministers in China.
"The parties also discussed relations with the US and prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis," Russia's foreign ministry said.
"The importance of strengthening close coordination between the two countries in the international arena, including in the United Nations and its Security Council, the SCO, BRICS, the G20 and APEC, was emphasised," the ministry said.
China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing, days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 05:32
Russia says it downed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight
Russia's air defence units destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian regions, the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea, Russia's defence ministry said today.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 05:20
Trump to meet Nato secretary general
Nato secretary general Mark Rutte is set to meet president Donald Trump this week on the heels of the US leader announcing plans to sell Nato allies weaponry that they can then pass on to Ukraine.
Mr Rutte will be in Washington this week and plans to hold talks with Mr Trump, secretary of state Marco Rubio and defence secretary Pete Hegseth as well as members of Congress.
"I'm gonna have a meeting with the secretary general who's coming in tomorrow," Mr Trump told reporters as he arrived in Washington last night.
"But we basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated (weapons) and they're gonna pay us 100 per cent for them."
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 05:01
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 04:49
Ukrainian intelligence officer gunned down in Kyiv
A senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was gunned down in broad daylight in Kyiv, officials said on Friday as a maternity hospital was hit by a Russian drone barrage on the city of Kharkiv.
Surveillance footage published on social media showed the agent was executed in a car park by a gunman clad in dark clothing who fled the scene. Police said they were trying to identify the shooter and that 'measures are being taken to detain him'.
The victim's name has not been publicly disclosed and the identity of the suspect remains unclear. A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official said that the intelligence officer had been a colonel, according to Reuters.
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Ukrainian intelligence officer gunned down in Kyiv
Execution comes as Russian drones hit maternity hospital in Kharkiv
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 04:29
Trump to send Patriot missiles to Kyiv
US president Donald Trump said he will send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, saying they are necessary to defend the country because Russian President Vladimir Putin "talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening".
Mr Trump did not give a number of Patriots he plans to send to Ukraine, but he said the United States would be reimbursed for their cost by the European Union.
The US president has grown increasingly disenchanted with Putin because the Russian leader has resisted Mr Trump's attempts to negotiate a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has asked for more defensive capabilities to fend off a daily barrage of missile and drone attacks from Russia.
"We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening. But there's a little bit of a problem there. I don't like it," Mr Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington.
"We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military equipment. They are going to pay us 100 per cent for that, and that's the way we want it," Mr Trump said.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar14 July 2025 04:13